Whether it’s Zooplus, Redcoon, Notebooksbilliger, Globetrotter or another successful online merchant – Exciting Commerce has long had the impression that the drivers of German e-commerce tend to avoid standard solutions and rather employ either self-made shopping systems or more or less highly customized Open Source solutions. Easy to claim, and although individual examples support the theory, not so easy in general to substantiate.

10. Innovation sparks dissonance and discomfort.
9. Innovation increases the amount of seeming failures.
8. Results only show up long-term.
7. More meetings.
6. CEOs conserve resources. Innovation requires more resources.
5. Innovation flies in the face of analysis.
6. CEOs assume the Board will not be impressed.
5. Imbalance of right-brain and left-brain thinking.
4. The perceived absence of time.
3. Over-reliance on cost-cutting and incremental improvement.
2. Inability to enroll a committed team of champions.
1. Insufficient conviction that innovation will make a difference.
(Via Entreprise Globale by jyhuwart)